from mpl_toolkits.mplot3d import axes3d import matplotlib.pyplot as plt import numpy as np fig, [ax1, ax2] = plt.subplots(2, 1, figsize=(8, 12), subplot_kw={'projection': '3d'}) X, Y, Z = axes3d.get_test_data(0.05) ax1.plot_wireframe(X, Y, Z, rstride=10, cstride=0) ax1.set_title("Column stride 0") ax2.plot_wireframe(X, Y, Z, rstride=0, cstride=10) ax2.set_title("Row stride 0") plt.tight_layout() plt.show()